{"id":140965,"date":"2025-09-01T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/?p=140965"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:04:25","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T14:04:25","slug":"monthly-service-offering-for-september-drive-a-senior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/monthly-service-offering-for-september-drive-a-senior\/","title":{"rendered":"Monthly Service Offering for September &#8211; Drive a Senior"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driveasenioratx.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-139835 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-9.38.14\u202fAM-300x72.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-9.38.14\u202fAM-300x72.png 300w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-9.38.14\u202fAM-4x1.png 4w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-9.38.14\u202fAM-50x12.png 50w, https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Screenshot-2024-07-29-at-9.38.14\u202fAM.png 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Drive a Senior ATX <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: #008080;\">Building Relationships One Ride at a Time<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drive a Senior ATX enables older adults to live independently, avoid social isolation and age in place by providing free, volunteer-based transportation and other support services to senior adults in Austin since 1985, including<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily rides to medical appointments and errands,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weekly rides to HEB for groceries,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Monthly rides for social outings and events,<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As needed handyman services, tech assistance, and social visits.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our mission is transportation, but our impact is relationships. Our volunteer-based rides come with care, empathy, and inclusion. Our clients are treated like family and build meaningful relationships with our staff and volunteers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First UU is a founding congregation of Drive a Senior, originally called North Central Caregivers. Our congregation formerly contributed annually to its work and has provided many volunteers since its inception in 1985.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drive a Senior ATX Building Relationships One Ride at a Time Drive a Senior ATX enables older adults to live independently, avoid social isolation and age in place by providing free, volunteer-based transportation and other support services to senior adults in Austin since 1985, including Daily rides to medical appointments and errands, Weekly rides to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140967,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140965\/revisions\/140967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austinuu.org\/wp2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}